No, you're wrong, check the facts. The woman who alerted the police noticed the condition of the boat et al, was not the same as after the police had searched it. Cut the s___, he may be your homeboy, but not anybody in the rest of the country's.
Stop all the internet anti-establishment toughguy BS. Try serving your community and country before talking s___ about those who do. Have you ever even darkened the doorway of a recruiting office?
Since I've been in the Army since June of 1996, I'll accept your apology now. Or do you want to see my ID card?
Edit: I'll add some more here, having now read everything that came after the above quoted statement.
As many other have said, my concern (one of them) is for the whole idea of house-to-house searches without warrants, just based on the idea that the guy is somewhere in the area. To my mind, "probable cause" or "reasonable" means you've got a blood trail, foot prints, etc, leading to my house, or he was seen entering.
And the other concern - placing thousands of people under effective house arrest, based on the fact that you've got one armed and dangerous individual on the loose. I understand the intent - to make the operating space less complicated for the cops, try to reduce the suspect's ability to move, or make him more visible when he does.
To my mind, there's a huge difference between requesting that people remain in their homes, for their own safety and to assist police, and ordering it and, as I stated, placing thousands of people under effective house arrest for an indeterminate period of time.
Oh, and if the guy had managed to get into a place that the cops had already searched, doesn't that make them actually looked worse? It means he had somehow evaded them, and had reached a place that, having already searched it and found it clear, the police wouldn't be likely to search again. Absent the tip from the aforementioned Alert Citizen.
And for future reference, I generally use the term 'homeboy' sarcastically.